BlockBefore

Saint Donatus, Iowa

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Tete Des Morts Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52071. It stands on Lux Creek. The Survey maps it on the La Motte quadrangle. 120 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Saint Donatus within Jackson County

On record in Saint Donatus

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Donatus fell from 135 to 120 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010135
2020120-15 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

13 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Saint Donatus between 2007 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 April 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2020Debris and open burning4.2 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2018Debris and open burning12 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Saint Donatus: 9 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bullfrog MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Dubuque Sand and Gravel DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
OutcropPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Betsy MineZinc, LeadUnknown1908, 1913
Merry Widow MineZinc, LeadUnknown1907, 1917
Ten Strike MineZinc, LeadUnknownSphalerite
Tete Des Morts DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Betsy MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Bullfrog MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Franks QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
La Motte6.2 miles19
Smiths6.3 miles18
North Bellevue8.0 miles18
Cottonville9.2 miles17
Bellevue9.4 miles18
Otter Creek11.3 miles17
Pleasant Creek13.9 miles13
Springbrook14.0 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Saint DonatusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q610531The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 460972. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.